Re: FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA1 Now Available

On 9/7/25 09:36, Yasuhiro Kimura wrote:
> From: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
>>    SHA512 (FreeBSD-15.0-ALPHA1-amd64-20250906-0b3d82579a01-280099-bootonly.iso) = 64b02afa0b8ea70817e02a6abd0243529904369519ff68a5735a682d1af8d9f3dd91ac15bb05847a2a036a4b157ac33ecd2b45f74b0d7fee9444522af0b6d333
> 
> While installing with above iso image, fetch error of distfiles
> happens as following screen snapshot.
> 
> https://people.freebsd.org/~yasu/FreeBSD-15-ALPHA1-amd64.20250908.png
> 
> The error seems to happen because distfiles are placed under
> /pub/FreeBSD/releases/ rather than /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/
> 
> And fetch error also happens when creating poudriere jail with
> `poudriere jail -c -j JailName -v 15.0-ALPHA1`.

Thanks for reporting this.  I've added symlinks on ftp-master so once the
mirrors catch up this should work.

I'm not immediately sure if this was a bug in the code or if I broke things
because of the way I built these images -- ALPHAs are a weird point between
snapshots and releases since they're part of the release cycle but are still
being built from the stable branch.

(A possibly related issue: The OCI images got tagged as "15.0.snap" when
they should have been tagged as "15.0.alpha1".)

-- 
Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid